In January we kicked off our Health and Wellness Program with our first ever health screenings.  Because of your generous support we were able to provide basic health screenings for 196 students in two of our partner schools, Niamey School for the Deaf and School of Hope.  Our vision for this program is to begin collecting initial data at two schools and eventually expand the program to all of our schools.  The purpose of the health screening is to identify children who are sick or suffering from malnutrition.  Both of our Health & Wellness schools are part of the Remember Niger’s Food Program which provides daily lunches to students.  The results of the screening were excellent with over all 93% of our students being well nourished and in good health.  Through our health and wellness program we will help our partner schools address the needs of those students who are malnourished or ill.  And, we will help find ways to treat students with acute medical needs.